Review: Scare Me by Richard Parker

Scare Me by Richard Jay Parker
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Seven gruesome murders
Seven chances to save his daughter`s life

Successful business man Will Frost is woken by a midnight caller who asks him a very strange question.

When did you last Google yourself Mr Frost?

When Will goes online,he finds a website has been set up in his name,showing photographs of seven houses including his own.

In the first of these houses a gruesome murder has taken place.

Will is then told that his own family is in danger and the only way to save them is to visit each of the houses on the website in person.

Will must embark on his twisted journey and obey the rules of his tormentors sick scavenger hunt.

But can Will ever save this pregnant daughter Libby`s life.


I am not surprised that apparently there is going to be a movie version of this book,it certainly has the elements that you would expect to feature in a action thriller.Plenty of action,cliff hangers,twists and turns,very gory murders,a very twisted killer,the action hero and his ever supportive feisty wife,kidnapped pregnant daughter,there was even a seven year old boy thrown in to ramp up the fear for someone's life factor.If it was ever made into a movie I would definitely watch it.

The story is narrated from the point of view of a several characters,Will and his wife Clara,their daughter Libby,the killer,two reporters Pope and Weaver ( was Mr Parker a fan of Falling Skies? ) and seven year old Tam.Most of the chapters are voiced from more than one characters perspective and I did occasionally find myself losing track of which character I was reading about because the swapping between characters was so abrupt.It was hard to feel any connection or empath for any of the characters because they were all so one dimensional.At least three of them could have been omitted from the story completely,they served no purpose and added nothing whatsoever to the story.

There was no mystery to who the killer was because that was revealed in the very first chapter.Why Will and his family where targeted and the reasons for the killings where believable but some questions where left unanswered and the book ended on a bit of a cliff hanger,could Mr Parker be planning on writing a sequel.

It's certainly a fast paced thriller that was quite gripping at times but it also had a few unrealistic elements,mobile phones that never lost their signals or ran out of battery power and a laptop that never needed charging.It's taken me quite a long time to finish this book,it was ok but I honestly enjoyed Stalk Me a lot more than this one.

Many thanks to Endeavour Press for a arc of this book via netgalley in exchange for a honest review